Lubbock Independent School District
2023-2024
Parent and Family Engagement Policy
Cavazos Middle School
*Title I School Parent and Family Engagement Policy may be amended as needed to comply with COVID 19 protocols.
Specific COVID -19 protocols are noted in red
In support of strengthening student academic achievement, each school that receives Title I, Part A funds must develop jointly with, agree on with, and distribute to, parents of participating children a Parent and Family Engagement Policy that contains information required by section 1116 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The policy establishes the school’s expectations for parent engagement and describes how the school will implement a number of specific parent engagement activities.
PART I. GENERAL EXPECTATIONS
The School agrees to implement the following statutory requirements:
• The school will jointly develop with parents, distribute to parents of participating children, a Parent and Family Engagement Policy that the school and parents of participating children agree on.
• The school will notify parents about the Parent and Family Engagement Policy in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, will distribute this policy to parents in a language the parents can understand.
• The school will periodically update the Parent and Family Engagement Policy to meet the changing needs of parents and the school.
• The school will adopt the school’s school-parent compact as a component of its Parent and Family Engagement Policy.
• The school agrees to be governed by the following statutory definition of parental engagement, and will carry out programs, activities and procedures in accordance with this definition:
Parental engagement means the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities, including ensuring—
(A) parents play an integral role in assisting their child’s learning;
(B) parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their child’s education at school;
(C) that parents are full partners in their child’s education and are included, as appropriate, in decision-making and on advisory committees to assist in the education of their child;
PART II. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE SCHOOL WILL IMPLEMENT REQUIRED SCHOOL PARENT AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT POLICY COMPONENTS
The school will involve parents in the joint development and joint agreement of its Parent and Family Engagement Policy and its school-wide plan, if applicable, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way under section 1114(b) of the ESSA. | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
Parent Meeting to prepare 2023-2024 plan | May 3 | |
Survey parents frequently for feedback at various times during the year. (Title 1 Survey, Feedback at Events, etc.) | Ongoing | |
LISD and Cavazos will strengthen partnerships with the community to increase shared responsibility and trust by increasing parent voice and input in a way that is more representative of the district’s demographics. Partner ideas - Amigos, Las Hermanas | Ongoing | |
The school will distribute to parents of participating children and the local community, the School Parent and Family Engagement Policy. | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
A synopsis of the plan is sent home in enrollment packets on the first day of school, then in Thursday handouts and a link will also be emailed out through the Parent Notification system. | Aug/Sep 2023 | |
The plan is available in folders posted in the front foyer of the school. | August 2023 | |
The plan is posted on the school website. | August 2023 | |
The plan is also mentioned at the Fall Title 1 Meeting and parents are informed of the places to access the plan. | October 2023 | |
The school will convene an annual meeting to inform parents of the following: | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
The Fall Parent meeting will be conducted. | October 2023 | |
The Parent Involvement Plan is available in folders posted in the front foyer of the school. | Aug/Sept 2023 | |
The Parent Involvement Plan is posted on the school website. | Aug/Sept 2023 | |
The school will provide to parents of participating children a description and explanation of the curriculum in use at the school, the forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet. | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
Student Goals day is held at least once annually. Parents would like two meetings, led by students. Parents receive their children’s assessment results and TEA performance expectations by grade. | November 2023/ April 2024 | |
Assessment information from the TEA is mailed home to parents annually. | Ongoing | |
The Fall Parent meeting conducted. | October 2023 | |
IStation Reading and Eduphoria assessment information will be shared with parents through online formats and at Goals conferences. | Fall 2023 | |
We will put a link on the school’s home page to TEA and information about the TEKS. | Sep. 2023 | |
PART III. SHARED RESPONSIBILITIES FOR HIGH-STUDENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
The school will build the schools’ and parent’s capacity for strong parental involvement, in order to ensure effective involvement of parents and to support a partnership among the school involved, parents, and the community to improve student academic achievement. | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
Parents are invited to TEAMS gradebook account sign-up and training sessions. Those who do not attend have information mailed home to them. | Aug. 2023 | |
Gradebook parent account sign-up and training are offered at our open house parent event in the fall and as needed throughout the year. Parents will be provided a click sheet with directions on how to access this. Parents would like parent education courses. | Ongoing | |
We will also help parents download the LISD web app by providing info at parent events and sending information home. This can be added to an information page on how to stay in contact with us. | Ongoing | |
We will continue our system of sending reminders about tutorials through email/text to parents. | Ongoing | |
Teacher training regarding effective communication with parents will occur in the fall with a follow-up/refresher in the spring. | Fall and Spring | |
The school will, with the assistance of its district, provide materials and training to help parents work with their children to improve their children’s academic achievement, such as literacy training, and using technology, as appropriate, to foster parental involvement. | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
Student Goals day is held at least once annually. Parents would like two meetings, led by students. Parents receive their children’s assessment results and TEA performance expectations by grade. | November 2023/ April 2024 | |
Gradebook parent account sign-up and training is offered at our open house parent event in the fall and as needed throughout the year. Parents will be provided a click sheet with directions on how to access this. | Ongoing | |
Information about students’ Istation progress and results will be shared with parents. | Ongoing | |
Teachers will communicate regularly with parents regarding homework, tutorial schedules, and student progress. | Ongoing | |
Parent Technology training offered via front office staff to introduce parents to the various forms of technology available to students and to give them an opportunity to access online tools to assist them and their students (Gradebook, Dojo, Google Classroom, etc.). | Aug. 2023 | |
The school will, with the assistance of its district and parents, educate its teachers, pupil services personnel, principals and other staff, in how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners, in the value and utility of contributions of parents, and in how to implement and coordinate parent programs and build ties between parents and schools. | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
Training for staff on communicating with parents will be held on a professional development day or during PLC. This will include information on mass emailing progress reports in TEAMS and sending positive notes to parents through Review 360. | Fall 2023 | |
Additional training for new staff on how to work with parents (new teacher meetings) | Fall 2023 | |
CIS will continue to provide programs on campus including lunch buddies, art club, chess club, etc. | Ongoing | |
Provide parents the opportunity to have holiday lunches with their students during holidays. | Nov. Dec 2023 | |
The school will, to the extent feasible and appropriate, take the following actions to ensure that information related to the school and parent- programs, meetings, and other activities, is sent to the parents of participating children in an understandable and uniform format, including alternative formats upon request, and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand. | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
Use of an automated calling system to communicate with parents in English and Spanish. | Ongoing | |
We send home information, updates, and newsletters via the Blackboard parent notification system. | Ongoing | |
Parents are invited to Gradebook parent account sign-up and training sessions during open house. Those who do not attend have information sent home to them so they can see when their children are rewarded in school. | Ongoing | |
Campus announcements and information will be shared out via various social media platforms. A sheet with all the ways to connect with us will be provided to parents. | Ongoing | |
PART IV. BUILDING CAPACITY FOR INVOLVEMENT
The School Parental Involvement Policy may include additional discretionary activities that the school, in consultation with its parents, chooses to undertake to build parents’ capacity for involvement in the school to support their children’s academic achievement. | ||
Activities/Strategies | Timeline | Parent Feedback / Evaluation |
Student Goals day is held at least once annually. Parents would like two meetings, led by students. Parents receive their children’s assessment results and TEA performance expectations by grade. | November 2023/ April 2024 | |
The school will partner with the campus CIS coordinator to plan family nights at the campus. | Ongoing | |
Parents are notified when progress reports and report cards are sent home through the parent notification system. | Ongoing | |
PART V. SIGNATURE PAGE
MEMBERS OF THE CAMPUS PARENT AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING, REVISING, AND ADOPTING THIS POLICY.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, signatures of committee members reflected in minutes.
TODAY’S DATE:_________________________________
NAME | SIGNATURE | ROLE |
Marti Makuta | Principal | |
Assistant Principal | ||
Parent Liaison/Social Worker/Title I Contact Person | ||
Staff Member | ||
Staff Member | ||
Community/Business Partner | ||
Parent | ||
Parent | ||
Parent | ||
Parent | ||
Other |
Lubbock Independent School District Parent and Family Engagement Policy Planning Page